A clip of the BBC production of Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, based on the trilogy of the same name by Patrick Hamilton. Many of Hamilton’s novels, and plays, have been adapted into movies, including: Hangover Square, a 1945 film starring George Sanders, Linda Darnell, and Laird Cregar (who died of a heart attack before the movie was released in the US after losing 100 pounds for the role); Rope by Alfred Hitchcock with Jimmy Stewart and Farley Granger, and Gaslight by George Cukor starring Ingird Bergman, Joseph Cotten, and an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury. Along with Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, NYRB Classics has also published Hamilton’s novel The Slaves of Solitude.
